NINE State-owned television channels, including Shenzhen TV, on the Chinese mainland began to broadcast in high-definition yesterday. All programs on the channels will be broadcast in both high-definition and standard-definition. “All these channels have completed satellite transmission of TV signals, which enables subscribers to HDTV to watch National Day celebrations in high-definition,” the State Administration […]

The front page of Monday’s Shenzhen Daily overseas editions. Lin Min THE Shenzhen Daily yesterday launched its U.S. and Indonesian editions, the first time it has been published overseas. From yesterday, eight pages of the Shenzhen Daily will be published and distributed every day by the International Daily News, one of the largest-circulating Chinese-language newspapers […]

Newman Huo SHENZHEN will launch an annual international tourism festival in October, part of its effort to build the city into an international coastal tourism center, authorities announced yesterday. The two-month Shenzhen International Tourism and Culture Festival, the fifth since 2005, will stage 22 cultural, sports and tourism events. Among them there will be China […]

A view of Nei Lingding Island from Castle Peak, Hong Kong.SD-Agencies SHENZHEN was granted jurisdiction over Inner Lingding Island, a wildlife reserve between Hong Kong’s Yuen Long and Shenzhen’s Shekou, by the Guangdong government Friday. Shenzhen and its neighbor Zhuhai had been divided for years on which city the island should belong to. The 4.84-square-kilometer […]

Li Hao AN estimated 4.82 million people will cross the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border during the forthcoming National Day holidays from Wednesday to Oct. 8, frontier officials said Saturday. The Shenzhen General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection said in a news release that the figure, an average of 530,000 moving daily across the border, […]

Wang Yuanyuan A TOTAL of 200 migrant workers had gained admission to top universities in the country, supported by the city government, the Shenzhen Federation of Trade Unions said Saturday. They will continue their studies at the city’s migrant school, and the federation will invite teachers from Tianjin University, Sichuan University and Beijing University of […]

SHENZHEN is considering applying to the Central Government to list Zhongying Street in Shatoujiao in Yantian District as a State-level cultural heritage site. “City officials have discussed the matter with officials of the Ministry of Construction in an unofficial way,” Xu Zhongping, head of the city’s urban planning development research center, said at an ecology […]

Daryl Kramp, a member of the Canadian Federal Parliament, talks with a Grade Two student at the International School of Sino-Canada during a visit to the school’s campus in Nanshan District on Friday. A 17-member delegation of Canadian MPs representing the Canada-China Legislative Association visited Shenzhen on Friday after attending the 12th bilateral meeting between […]

Mark Kalisch Wang Yuanyuan HOW long does it take for a foreigner to learn to talk fluently with local Chinese? The answer for Mark Kalisch is about six months. The 41-year-old Australian man and his wife Bernadette, 42, made an incredible impression on their teachers at New Concept Mandarin in Shekou, Nanshan District, since starting […]

THE past half year saw the land reclamation by residents of nearly 3,000 square meters of fish ponds near Shenzhen Waterlands Resort in Shajing, Bao’an District. The Waterlands Resort management said the action was probably driven by hopes among local residents that they might receive more compensation from the government when a wetland park begins […]